Love Podcast
Enjoy our lovely podcast of Love: A Guide for Amateurs
@LoveAmateur33
loving yourself is half the battle
@LoveAmateur32
Self-love is about reconnecting with nature and growing some of my own food has also been helpful as has getting rid of that box of mind tricks that helps to maintain the status quo ‘TV’ is also helpful. Always be kind to you, there is but one of you beautiful human
@LoveAmateur31
One of the most important things I have done for self-love is to find a way to reduce my working week by one day, leaving only 4 days that I slave away like a lunatic. To me a job especially a full time job is very harmful to mind, body and spirit so if you can find a way to do less harm to you then please do
@LoveAmateur30
One of the things I have learned is to start by being kind and compassionate to yourself and to find ways of nurturing and loving you – you spectacular speck of conscious awareness spinning in infinity in the all that is
@LoveAmateur29
Love is the spirit of life in the adorned body of mankind
Mourning & Melancholia
“The distinguishing features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment” Freud
The Art of Loving
“The most widespread misunderstanding is that which assumes that giving is “giving up” something, being deprived of, sacrificing..” Erich Fromm
@LoveAmateur 24
Love is about loss, trust, of fear of abandonment. Elusive. Uncertainty yet searching for a recognition
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“What Freud called ‘normal’ everyday feelings of jealousy have fallen out of fashion and have become a source of embarrassment for those unlucky enough to experience it”
@LoveAmateur21
“the capacity to be conscious of the self and the other is not the stuff of match me.com, rather the ordinary magic of love”
Read our eBook Love: A Guide for Amateurs
@LoveAmateur22
“Before we give up on love it might be helpful to know that we’re all ultimately love amateurs. Read a love letter between Freud and his fiancé Martha, full of silliness and desire, and you might realise that even for the father of psychoanalysis putting love into words is really hard”
Negative Capability
“is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try to reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into a closed and rational system”
@Loveamateur20
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone. Let your heart burn with loving-kindness for all who may cross your path
@LoveAmateur19
When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love
@LoveAmateur18
Grief is the shape of the love lost. Love lasts forever, life ends.
Pansexualist
A Pansexualist sees every drive as ultimately a sexual one. It really is all about sex.
Elizabeth Cotton, Valentine’s 2015
Nothing like standing up in front of a group of people talking about love to make you feel like a wronger
Steve Fuller, Valentines 2015
Jesus was really attractive
Sigmund Freud to Martha, 1884
My precious darling…Even when you use endearments, I don’t entirely like it…I don’t want you to love me for qualities you assume in me, you must love me as irrationally as other people love.
@LoveAmateur18
Love is being overjoyed that that person exists – for a long time!
@LoveAmateur17
I’ve been an activist most of my life and really passionate about what I do. But it means I’ve got a superego the size of a tank. So my top tip for love is try to be less busy.
@LoveAmateur16
Always remember to do the washing-up the night before.
@LoveAmateur15
Don’t intellectualise it feel it
@LoveAmateur14
I know that i have heard many people feeling sad that they have not been loved enough and just a handful briefing that they are not able to experience the feeling or to offer their love to another human being.
@LoveAmateur13
When you are heart broke and feel you have lost love remember, and cherish the memory when you experienced love.
@LoveAmateur12
Love is a Moebius strip, a sphere with two sides
@LoveAmateur11
To love you have to stop referencing yourself. You haven’t had the same experience. You don’t know how it feels. You don’t know what the ‘people around you’ should do or what they think or feel.
We Need You
This week we want to know from you how we can build a more loving society?
Love: The Guide for Amateurs
The Book HERE
The Shallow End
This week we will mainly be trying to talk about love in a way that doesn’t make us sound like my mum’s ‘pinions of the impact of Facebook on Western Society
@LoveAmateurs10
“I ask questions, listen to the answer and remember to follow-up” P on #howtogetonatwork
@LoveAmateurs9
“Patience. Patience. Patience. Patience.More patience.Hanging in there.More patience.Taking the long view.Patience” J
@LoveAmateurs8
“experience anger (my own and others) without running away from it” J
@LoveAmateur7
“Enduring extreme emotions with patience (er… sometimes)” J in Edinburgh
@LoveAmateur6
“Sometimes asking difficult questions, or at least willing to dive into the less-easy issues” Julia
@LoveAmateur5
“health workers are expected to care for their people – so they need some care too” Antonia, true expert
@LoveAmateur4
“with people in frontline jobs just listen try standing in their shoes for a moment” Antonia
Love: A Guide for Amateurs
“Socratic as it might be, this capacity to be conscious of the self and the other is not the stuff of match me.com, rather the ordinary magic of love“
@LoveAmateur3
“Exquisite listening – be in the moment when listening to someone” Antonia, expert on intimacy
@LoveAmateur2
“By praising them for what they do well, and ignoring the rest” Gary’s tip on getting on with people
@LoveAmateur1
“to #love you need thin skin and be prepared to be hurt that’s how love works but gives more than anything else” E, Redditch
Love Country & Western Style
Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth ‘Cause I’m Kissing You Goodbye
Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure
I Would Have Writ You A Letter, But I Couldn’t Spell Yuck!
Mama Get The Hammer (There’s A Fly On Papa’s Head)
You’re The Reason Our Baby’s So Ugly
The Last Word In Lonesome Is “me”
The Next Time You Throw That Fryin’ Pan, My Face Ain’t Gonna Be There
Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eyes?
Love Part 2
Sadly romantic ideas about love conquering all are tested in the extreme during economic crisis
Love Part 1
One of the motivations to learn about love is the desire to circumnavigate the inherent perils and pains of getting close to people
#LoveAmateurs
In order to survive working life in 2015, Surviving Work has dropped its deep cynicism about campaigns and people-with-answers and is launching the #LoveAmateurs campaign
Love Amateur 2015
Don’t know about you but 2014 left me feeling a little short on love
The Shallow End
This week we will mainly be trying to talk about love in a way that doesn’t make us sound like my mum’s ‘pinions of the impact of Facebook on Western Society
#LOVEAMATEURS
Send us your questions and top tips about how to get good at love
@survivorstory20
I haven’t worked since…
@SurvivorStories17
I needed to work out where I belonged….
@SurvivorStories16
I needed to be myself…..
@SurvivorStories14
the culture of targets at work is impossible….
@SurvivorStories16
when I came back to work after hospital I was suspended…..
@SurvivorStories14
My dad suffered from workplace stress…..
@SurvivorStories12
I love my job, that’s the thing…..
@SurvivorStories11
I was working in a textile factory in Blackpool….
@SurvivorStory10
I’ve just returned to work after 5.5 months after my personal life got really messy….
@Survivorstory9
I’ve just had a major crisis at work
@Survivorstory7
I’m set to lose 5 grand a year
@Survivorstory6
What being paranoid schizophrenic has taught me about working life
@Survivorstory5
I think I needed things to go wrong before they went right
@survivorstories4
How do comedians deal with anxiety on stage?
@Survivorstories3
Don’t let anything hold you back from doing what you love
@Survivorstory3
What makes work work for you when you’re in trouble
@Survivorstory3
What you should do if you can’t take it any more
Campaign for me
Sometimes, we can be our own worst enemy – putting ourselves down and not standing up to that voice that says “loser”.
@Survivorstory3
Can you work and have a personality disorder?
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How to have fun on a psychiatric ward
@Survivorstory2
A top tip from a superhero
@Survivorstory2
How to become a tourettes superhero
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How to ask for help from other people
@Survivorstory1
How Elsie lost her job and started again
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How Elsie met the Gaffer of the NHS